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A recently completed annual review of the global ethylene market suggests that companies in the industry would have firm margins in 2006 and 2007. Nova Chemicals that was spun off from...
Containers made of plastics for beverages and food bottles in the US are forecasted to grow by 5%. Smaller sized beverage bottles will continue to fuel advances, growth will slow down fro...
GDP, which measures the value of all goods and services produced in a country, is considered the broadest barometer of an economy. The economy of U.S is projected to expand by 3.4% in 200...
With several petrochem projects nearing completion, and scheduled to come on stream soon, China's petrochemicals production capacity will see a quantum jump. China's domestic petrochemica...
World oil prices stand at three-month lows, as they dip below US$47 in New York. Abundant US supplies and speculative sales have triggered this fall in prices. New York's light sweet crud...
Innovene's Chocolate Bayou manufacturing site in Texas has successfully completed the expansion and turnaround of its Olefins #1 unit. The changes were implemented to meet stricter Texas ...
Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Corp. have signed an initial deal to build a US$2 billion petrochemical plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, to produce 1.6 million tpa of ethylene products...
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), with operations in the Middle East, has capacity expansion plans on the cards. This expansion is planned by the world's 10th largest petrochemi...
South Korea's LG International (LGI), Oman Oil Co (OOC) and National Petrochemical Co (NPC) of Iran have formed a joint-venture for a 300 000 tpa ethylene dichloride (EDC) project in Soh...
China's Zhejiang Hualian Sanxin (Sunshine) Petrochemical Co. Ltd. has scheduled the start up of its second 600,000 mta purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in the first quarter of 2007....
China's petrochemical industry, abundant with a large number of small plants for various products, is plagued with problems of competitiveness in a global scenario. Cracker capacities...
China's petrochem industry has seen tremendous growth, triggered by a booming economy. However, the Chinese economy is facing its share of problems. The gap between the urban and the rura...
Degussa is to launch pilot production this year of a low cost polycarbonate film. Degussa's Plexiglas unit has developed a cover layer of appropriate thickness with high quality optical ...
Oil prices rose on strength in petrol. Petrol traditionally takes the energy market spotlight in springtime, as suppliers prepare for the US summer driving season. However, this rise was ...
Dow Chemical Co. currently operates 5 business centers and 10 manufacturing sites in China. The company's revenue in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan amounted to US$2.2 billion in 2004. China ...
Bayer MaterialScience has projected global polycarbonate growth at 8-10% pa for the next few years. With this projected growth Bayer has plans for further capacity increases. In response ...
Technip has signed a Letter of Intent with Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) for the construction of ethylene and propylene plants at the Yansab complex in Saudi Arabia. The cont...
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. has shut two naphtha crackers for approx 5 weeks, in both eastern and western Japan for regular maintenance. Mitsubishi operates three crackers in Japan with com...
DuPont has opened its first packaging and industrial polymers ethylene copolymer facility in Asia Pacific. The company's Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP) division will now produce B...
Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil have signed an MOU for the construction of the biggest ethane-based cracker of its kind in the world. The 1.6-mil mta ethylene cracker is to be built at Ra...
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